This book argues that journalism should treat itself as an academic discipline on a par with history, geography and sociology, and as an art form in its own right. Time, space, social relations and imagination are intrinsic to journalism. Chris Nash takes the major flaws attributed to journalism by its critics a crude empiricism driven by an un-reflexive news sense; a narrow focus on a de-contextualised, transient present; and a too intimate familiarity with powerful sources and treats them as methodological challenges. Drawing on the conceptual frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu, David Harvey,...